Plus Tracyanne & Danny, Mass Gothic, Future Islands, Dirty Projectors, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

May 04, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Last week's Songs of the Week encompassed two week's worth of songs. This week we're back to normal. This week's list features lots of Songs of the Week alumni, with three of the top four being former #1s. More

Consolation E.P. Due Out June 15 via Domino

May 03, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr released a new album, Relatives in Descent, last September via Domino. Now they have announced a new EP, Consolation E.P., and shared a Yoonha Park-directed video for a new song, "Wheel of Fortune," which features Kelley Deal of The Breeders and R. Ring (as does one other song on the release). More

Issue 62 Also Includes Interviews with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, King Krule, and Much More

Oct 20, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar's app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More

Relatives in Descent Due Out September 29 via Domino

Jul 10, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Detroit-formed post punkers Protomartyr have announced a new album, Relatives in Descent, and have shared a video for its first single (also its opening track), "A Private Understanding." Relatives in Descent is the band's fourth album and is due out September 29 via Domino, their first for the label (their last two albums, 2014's Under the Color of Official Right and 2015's The Agent Intellect, were released by Hardly Art). More

"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

Apr 26, 2017By Christopher Roberts

"Our First 100 Days" is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the "30 Days, 30 Songs" anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for "Our First 100 Days." More

"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

Apr 04, 2017By Christopher Roberts

"Our First 100 Days" is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the "30 Days, 30 Songs" anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for "Our First 100 Days." More

Interviews

Truth is Hiding in the Wire

Nov 21, 2017By Ed McMenamin

He wasn't exactly depressed before he formed Protomartyr, frontman Joe Casey says, but he didn't have a lot to look forward to, either. Eight years later, he's 40, and his band is ready to release its fourth LP, Relatives in Descent, its first on Domino. More

Reviews

Consolation E.P.

Domino

Jun 19, 2018By Michael James Hall

On Consolation E.P.Detroit scum-rockers Protomartyr collaborate for the second time with R. Ring members Kelley Deal (also of The Breeders) and Mike Montgomery to create a four-song Black-Lodge-dream of personal and political apocalypse.

Relatives in Descent

Domino

Sep 27, 2017By Ed McMenamin

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey does have a sense of humor, even if on record it may not be "haha" funny. As he speak-sings on his band's new LP, Relatives in Descent, he wishes there was a better ending to the joke: the poisoned rivers and "vile trumpets" of incongruous noise, evaporating notions of truth, toxic masculinity in police uniforms. More